Yeah Sarah, as president, John McCain would indeed “end… the abuse of power.” In Alaska.
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A week or so ago Goldy said something about swearing off Palin video. Maybe it is time. The target is just too easy. Shooting fish in a barrel carries a higher degree of difficulty.
On the other hand, she is asking for it.
I heard a pundit, a conservative, I think, whose name escapes me now, say that the problem with Palin is that she is not intellectually curious. She already knows it all.
A perfect description.
The Truth About ACORN’s Voter Registration Drives
ACORN has issued the following statement:
“As The Nation pointed out recently, ACORN’s success in registering millions of low-income and minority voters has made it ‘something of a right-wing bogeyman.’ Though ACORN believes that the right to vote is not, and should never be, a partisan issue, attacks from groups threatened by our historic success continue to come, motivated by partisan politics and often perpetuated by the media without full investigation of the facts.
“As a result, there have been a few recent stories about investigations of former ACORN workers for turning in incomplete, erroneous, or fraudulent voter registration applications. Predictably, partisan forces have tried to use these isolated incidents to incite fear of the ‘bogeyman’ of ‘widespread voter fraud.’ But we want to take this opportunity to set the record straight and tell you a few facts to show how these incidents really exemplify everything that ACORN is doing right:
“Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field, but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic.
“Fact: ACORN flags incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in, but these warnings are often ignored by election officials. Often these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards.
“Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card, so there is NO incentive for them to falsify cards. ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the relatively rare cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.
“Fact: No charges have ever been brought against ACORN itself. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes.
“Fact: Voter fraud by individuals is extremely rare, and incredibly difficult. There has never been a single proven case of anyone, anywhere, casting an illegal vote as a result of a phony voter registration. Even if someone wanted to influence the election this way, it would not work.
“Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN’s good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.
“Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered and allowed to vote, so there is also NO incentive to ‘disrupt the system’ with phony cards.
“Fact: Similar accusations were made, and attacks launched, against ACORN and other voter registration organizations in 2004 and 2006. These attacks were not only groundless, they have since been exposed as part of the U.S. Attorney-gate scandal and revealed to be part of a systematic partisan agenda of voter suppression.”
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Demagogues create scapegoats and “enemies” to get gullible people to follow them. Remember Sen. Joe McCarthy waving blank sheets of paper at TV cameras? The truth is Republicans haven’t come up with a single documented case of actual voting fraud. Nor are they interested in doing so. It is enough, for their purposes, if a few million fools believe their spurious claims of massive voting fraud. That’s the whole point — to get their followers to believe if they lose an election it’s because of cheating and not because of rejection of their party by voters because of poor leadership and failed policies. It also feeds the latent racism of their followers — and gives them a tool to delegitimize Democratic election victories. The GOP’s “voting fraud” campaign is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Did you notice that recent pictures of Palin have her with her hair down, instead of bundled up like some of those gals in the Texas polygamy compound?
Personally, I think Palin has already figured that McCain has taken her as far as he can, and it’s time for her to cast off from that tow and find another one. McCain’s campaign is going down now, absent some miracle. McCain tried to quiet the rhetoric from his base at the end of last week, perhaps bowing to advice that such conduct doesn’t sit well with undecided voters.
But Palin is continuing to rouse the crowds at her rallies with the strongest rhetoric, stressing Obama’s “ties to terrorists” and other such garbage.
Perhaps she hasn’t gotten the message to tone down the rhetoric? Or maybe she got the message just fine, but has decided that her future is better served by becoming the darling of the extreme right-wing evangelical base of the Republican Party? Maybe she figures she’s gotten as far as she is going to go in 2008, and she should set her sights running in 2012 not as a VP nominee, but at the head of the ticket?
I’m assuming that her current term of office as governor ends in 2010, so she could decide not to run for re-election, and instead spend the next two years making her run for the White House, except this time being a lot better prepared on national issues so she can’t be tripped up by those “liberal mainstream media” and their “tricky ‘Gotcha’ questions”. Maybe a stint on Fox News with her own TV show?
That assumes, of course, that she can weather the Troopergate thing without being impeached. If she survives it, she will dismiss future inquiries about it as “old news”, and “I was investigated and the Democrats tried to force me out of office but failed because I was innocent” defense. (I guess theoretically Clinton could run for office again using the same argument, although he couldn’t be President again).
@4 Oh God yes, I hope Palin is the GOP Party’s presidential nominee in 2012 and for many years to come!
Todd and Sarah Palin: Not just wicked, but stupid, too.
Jesus Christ, would Palin’s election as President make her a PILF?
God, I just through up in my mouth……
Assuming (and not at all a safe assumption) that the GOP doesn’t manage to flimflam, defraud, cheat, lie and steal its way into retaining power next month, look for Palin to become a “correspondent” on Fox, pose nude for Playboy, or both.
Considering how many smears from dailypus has been discredited why would anyone with an IQ higher than a goat take anything serious from dailypus??
They are being investigated in numerous states.
Of course they have to put a good spin on illegal behaviors.
Marvin falls for the spin again.
With the McCain ticket about to go down, and with voter suppression the last desperate hope of a Republican victory, the Republicans try to set up a new “villan” upon which to blame their loss: ACORN. It works for them because their base associates ACORN with blacks and other minorities, so it has a racial componant as well.
Then they encourage Republicans officials in several districts to open up an “investigation” into ACORN. It would be great for them if charges were filed, but it’s not really necessary. They just need a few examples of bad registrations and to feed lots of rumors about the “huge investigation” of “widespread malfeasance”, rumors which will be repeated endlessly by wingnuts on the internet and on Fox News, accellerating up to election day.
So in the Republican spin (and “Marvin-speak”), the existence of a politically motivated investigation is the same as a proven fact – as long as it suits their purpose.
But not so much when it works the other way around. Palin and Rossi both insist that investigations into their conduct should be immediately stop simply because they claim the investigations are “politically motivated”. In other words, they claim they have a veto power over any investigations of themselves, they just have to pull out the “politically motivated” trump card, and the investigation then “goes away” – after which they will then claim they were “investigated and cleared of any wrongdoing” (which is another issue).